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Steve Miller/Lol Coxhill: The Story So Far...Oh Really?

by Nic Jones
August 28, 2007

Steve Miller/Lol Coxhill The Story So Far...Oh Really? Cuneiform Records 2007 British pianist Steve Miller and soprano saxophonist and British national treasure Lol Coxhill worked extensively together back in the 1970s. This carefully put together double disc set documents their music from that time and its release should ...

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Sam Sadigursky: The Words Project

by Martin Gladu
August 27, 2007

Sam Sadigursky The Words Project New Amsterdam Records 2007 Musical settings of poetry remain rare in jazz. Pianist Ketil Björnstad's accessible readings of John Donne's metaphysical poems and bassist Steve Swallow's longtime affair with Robert Creeley have replenished the genre to a degree, but few artists have braved the near-stigmatized ...

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Norbert Stein: Graffiti Suite

by Lyn Horton
August 25, 2007

Norbert Stein Graffiti Suite Pata Music 2006 Interaction among separate elements can have greater impact than the individual actions of those elements. The process is called synergy. Synergy works on all levels and is an important factor behind the successful outcomes that can emerge from collaborative effort--and it can be ...

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Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Live

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
August 22, 2007

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Live Ronin Rhythm Records 2006 The critical enthusiasm that greeted Stoa (ECM, 2006), by keyboardist Nik Bärtsch's Ronin band, has encouraged some listeners to look into his back catalogue. It turns out that the Zurich-based musician has been developing the musical project that gave rise to Stoa ...

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Joanna Newsom: Ys and The Ys Street Band

by Joshua Weiner
August 21, 2007

Joanna Newsom Ys/The Ys Street Band Drag City 2006/2007 Joanna Newsom is not a jazz singer, to be sure. But neither is she a pop singer, nor simply a folk singer, even one with the back-handedly complimentary “freak sobriquet inserted as a prefix. No, Joanna Newsom is a ...

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Monty Alexander: We've Only Just Begun

by Samuel Chell
August 20, 2007

Monty Alexander Trio We've Only Just Begun Universal 2006 Pure and simple, the hardest swinging session on record. Of course, what Duke Ellington meant by his famous criterion concerning swing is as debatable as Louis Armstrong's evasive definition of jazz. But if the listener's idea of “swing" goes beyond time-keeping, ...

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Glass Bead Games

by Samuel Chell
August 16, 2007

"I suddenly realized that in the language of the Glass Bead Game every symbol and combination of symbols led not to single examples but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge."---Hermann HesseClifford Jordan was a soulful, powerful, deeply thoughtful Chicago tenor player who, though sought after by ...

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Peter Br

by Clifford Allen
August 15, 2007

Peter Brötzmann The Complete Machine Gun Sessions Atavistic 2007 Almost forty years have passed since the 1968 recording of German reedman Peter Brötzmann's Machine Gun at the Lila Eule in Bremen. The session, now regarded as one of the cornerstone records of European free improvisation, was a combination ...

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Tad Britton: Black Hills

by Jason West
July 23, 2007

Tad Britton Black Hills Origin Records 2007 It's unanimous. Of the 8 cuts on Black Hills - the debut release from a Seattle jazz trio featuring pianist Marc Seales, acoustic bassist Jeff Johnson, and drummer/bandleader Tad Britton - the overwhelming favorite is “Fire and Rain. This according to ...

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Hal Galper: Furious Rubato

by Jason West
July 22, 2007

Hal Galper Furious Rubato Origin Records 2007 The new recording from pianist Hal Galper, with double-bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer John Bishop, initially conjures to mind the free improvisations of Cecil Taylor, Don Pullen with Charles Mingus, McCoy Tyner with John Coltrane, and Miles Davis, whose “Milestones and ...